“Parents were not only not consulted, they were never even notified of their children’s exposure to transgenderism.”
NOR SHOULD THEY BE. Public schools are funded by GOVERNMENT MONEY, they don’t owe jack to parents.
...therefore I have NO PROBLEM with this kind of garbage going on. The REAL QUESTION is just who are these parents and do they really have NO CHOICE but to subject their kids to government institutions?
1) Unless a parent can ransom their child by paying extra in the form of homeschooling and private schooling expenses the child **will** be forced to attend the government school. A quick Google search on the words, “Truant and Police” will confirm this.
2) Regardless....The taxpayer is definitely forced to pay for it. If they refuse the government will simply take their property. If they are sufficiently resistant they risk prison and even death. Even if a person were to commit suicide to avoid school taxes, the government will take the school taxes from their estate.
No, public schools are funded by WE THE PEOPLE.
The government works for us, not the other way around.
...therefore I have NO PROBLEM with this kind of garbage going on.
Both odd and disturbing.
The REAL QUESTION is just who are these parents and do they really have NO CHOICE but to subject their kids to government institutions?
Do SOME of the parents have a choice? Certainly. However, it is incorrect to assume that all do. There are many families who are unable to send their children to private schools or to homeschool them because of financial or other reasons.
The solution is to break the back of the teachers unions and provide vouchers for those families that do not want to use public schools.
The other thing this situation demonstrates is one of the major flaws in the libertarian mindset. They understand the inherent problems with the federal government while assuming that some sort of nobility exists at the levels of state and local government. The fallacious theory that more control at the state and local level is the panacea for America's woes is every bit as problematic as doing nothing at all.
That may well rank in the Top Ten dumbest posts ever put up at Free Republic.
They owe everything they have to parents and taxpayers